The U.S. Supreme Court is examining whether or not the police can gather DNA profiles from people who have not been convicted of a crime in order to see if they might have convicted one. NBC's Pete Williams reports. (Nightly News)
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A video from Harvard's Wyss Institute explains how strands of DNA can be assembled into three-dimensional nanostructures like tiny Lego building blocks. (NBC News)
Forensic tests made public show that George Zimmerman's was the only DNA that could be identified on the grip of the gun used to fatally shoot Trayvon Martin. (NewsNation)
According to recently released research papers, genes are only a very small piece of what makes the body work. Much more important is the stuff in between the genes – stuff once dismissed as "junk DNA." NBC's Robert Bazell reports. (Nightly News)
Tales of the giant, mountain-dwelling yeti have been told for decades, but is it just a myth or does the creature exist? To get answers, Oxford professor Brian Sykes is using DNA analysis to test material connected to the yeti. NBC's Keith Miller reports. (TODAY)
Serial killer Ted Bundy's DNA profile was uploaded to the FBI's database on Friday, after vials of his blood were found last month, and cold case detectives across the country are hoping the DNA might break the cases of dozens of unsolved murders. Msnbc's Chris Jansing reports. (Jansing and Co)
The FBI has recently obtained a sample of Ted Bundy's DNA that may be able to solve several homicides. NBC's Whitney Ray reports. (NBC News)
Prosecutors in Italy got their chance this week to cross examine DNA experts who testified that no genetic material was found on a knife that would tie American Amanda Knox to the 2007 stabbing death of her British roommate. NBC's Keith Miller reports from Perugia. (TODAY)
Prosecutors in Italy got their chance this week to cross examine DNA experts who testified that no genetic material was found on a knife that would tie American Amanda Knox to the 2007 stabbing death of her British roommate. NBC's Keith Miller reports from Perugia. (TODAY)
In court on Monday, forensic experts slammed the DNA evidence used to find Amanda Knox guilty of killing her roommate, giving the American college student's appeal case a major boost. NBC's Keith Miller reports from Italy. (TODAY)